(Recruiting) Kiss of Darkness--Adventure in my Homebrew Setting

[jkason]

Interesting, but the very first feat listed they have described completely wrong, so I wouldn't trust it completely

Thanks for the heads up. I wondered if there might not be some errors. It's why I tend to avoid the Dragon Magazine cited feats, since the feats from books would seem to be more easily verified with folks with a better rules library than me.

What does the Able Learner feat really look like, then?

jason

 

[jkason]

jkason--Salienne, that town to north of the capital, was hit early from the cult's hidden fortress in the country's north. They now also have a noted monastery where monks, paladins, and good-aligned ascetics across faiths train, considering it to be a holy site.

Sounds good. The monastery could have provided some of the religious training for the town's kids, too, so it works out well with the background. I think he should be all set, then. Hopefully, he'll make it through the selection process.

thanks,

jason

 

[Shayuri]

Visual: "The Scream" by Van Gogh.

Egad! Am I too late? I checked in on Friday, and thought...

Oh MAN. Well, I had ideas for another slew of characters based on what was "missing" from the current crop of submissions...but it looks like I'd better stop waffling and SUBMIT something, lest I lose my place!

In particular, there's a curious lack of primary spellcasters, both arcane and divine. I was gonna do Meepo, but the massive Kobold racial penalties made him tough with my stat array...too many holes to plug. Not to mention, his personal agenda might compete with the party's, so... There's already a ranger, but only one, so Aliyas is probably still good. I also have an idea for a snooty High Elf wizard...perhaps a member of a royal clan or somesuch, out on a rebellious fling to have the adventure her even snootier parents would deny her.

Also, could a warlock's powers derive from some other source than "vague lower planar references?" Could a warlock be, say, half-fey? A "changeling" in the historical mythological sense...a fey baby substituted for human at birth? Warlocks have some appeal, since they can serve via wands as both arcane and divine 'casters.'

And if it's too late for my maundering...then thank you for your consideration. I hesitate only because I want a character that will suit the developing groups.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Thanks for the heads up. I wondered if there might not be some errors. It's why I tend to avoid the Dragon Magazine cited feats, since the feats from books would seem to be more easily verified with folks with a better rules library than me.

What does the Able Learner feat really look like, then?

jason

It really lets you take cross-class skills for only 1 point each, but skill with the usual limit of 1/2 max ranks of class skills.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Sounds good. The monastery could have provided some of the religious training for the town's kids, too, so it works out well with the background. I think he should be all set, then. Hopefully, he'll make it through the selection process.

thanks,

jason

Yup, seems like he's all set

 

[Rystil Arden]

Visual: "The Scream" by Van Gogh.

Egad! Am I too late? I checked in on Friday, and thought...

Oh no, no. Let me reiterate this for anyone out there: You don't need to have had a complete submission! You just need to have posted in this thread once before my moratorium posts. This is so no one randomly appears today who never showed up before

 

[Rystil Arden]

There's already a ranger, but only one, so Aliyas is probably still good. I also have an idea for a snooty High Elf wizard...perhaps a member of a royal clan or somesuch, out on a rebellious fling to have the adventure her even snootier parents would deny her.

Both of those work quite well.

Also, could a warlock's powers derive from some other source than "vague lower planar references?" Could a warlock be, say, half-fey? A "changeling" in the historical mythological sense...a fey baby substituted for human at birth? Warlocks have some appeal, since they can serve via wands as both arcane and divine 'casters.'

Yup, they definitely can. In fact, my Enchantress and Magician base classes specifically derive power from fey blood, and I have my own +2 LA half-fey templates for most of the fey (plus Dark Sidhe, because Dark Sidhe are cool!)

 

[Bront]

Thanks for the heads up. I wondered if there might not be some errors. It's why I tend to avoid the Dragon Magazine cited feats, since the feats from books would seem to be more easily verified with folks with a better rules library than me.

What does the Able Learner feat really look like, then?

jason

It allows you to purchase cross class skills a 1 skill point per rank instead of 1 skill point per 1/2 rank, but does not change the maximum.

Unlike how it's worded in the PDF, which says you treat all skills as class skills.

 

[Shayuri]

*gasp of relief*

Thanks for clearing that up.

+2 LA is quite a bit, but I love fey...I don't suppose I could get you to post the Half Fey template here?

 

[Rystil Arden]

*gasp of relief*

I just hope nobody else got this idea and left without saying anything

+2 LA is quite a bit, but I love fey...I don't suppose I could get you to post the Half Fey template here?

Sure! I don't have access to the exact write-ups of any of them except Half-Siren, but the others are on similar power levels (Half-Nymph gets +Cha bonus to AC, Half-Dark-Sidhe gets a Caster-Level and DC boost to shadow spells):

[SBLOCK=Half-Siren]–2 Str, –2 Con, +4 Dex, +4 Int, +8 Cha, Damage Reduction 10/cold-wrought iron, Siren's Song, +2 bonus to Perform, Bluff, and Diplomacy checks that use her voice, type Fey, Fey Traits like Low-Light Vision[/SBLOCK]

The racial levels would look something like this:
[SBLOCK=Half-Siren]
Level 0 (This is where you take your first level in a PC class and don't have any levels in the Racial Class yet): -2 Str, -2 Con, +2 Dex, +2 Cha, +2 to Perform, Bluff, and Diplomacy checks that use her voice, type Fey, Fey traits like Low-Light Vision
Level 1: +4 Cha, +2 Int, Siren's Song
Level 2: +2 Dex, +2 Int, +2 Cha, DR 5/cold iron
[/SBLOCK]